| September 2008 |
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Russia has suggested holding an informal UN Security Council meeting with representatives of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on October 7-8, Russia's envoy to the UN said. 
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday after the Ukraine-EU summit in Paris that he expected his country to sign an "association agreement" with the 27-nation bloc in the second half of 2009. 
At least 56 people have been found dead in northern China and hundreds are missing following a landslide that caused waste from an iron ore mine to engulf a valley, the Xinhua news agency said Tuesday. 
Ukraine is to shut down a radar facility in the west of the country currently being used by Russia, a national space agency official said on Tuesday. 
Russia will deploy regular troops and not Russian peacekeepers in the Georgian breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Russian foreign minister said Tuesday. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that a decision by the U.S. to freeze a civil nuclear agreement with Russia was a politically motivated mistake. 
North Korea's leader, rumored to be suffering from ill health, did not make an appearance at Tuesday's military parade to mark the nation's 60th anniversary, a source told RIA Novosti. 
Russia is not planning to reopen a radar base at the Lourdes facility in Cuba, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday. 
Delays in the completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant currently being built by Russia in the south of Iran are due to technical problems, a top Iranian official said on Tuesday. 
The son of Georgia's first post-Soviet president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has entered the fifth day of a hunger strike in protest at his arrest on suspicion of spying for Russia, his lawyer said on Tuesday. 
Airstrikes on military facilities in Tbilisi delivered by the Russian Air Force during the recent conflict with Georgia did not harm local residents, a senior Russian military official said on Tuesday. 
Russia's Navy remains a strong force capable of repelling any attack by a potential aggressor, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday. 



